U.S.-based production company Congo Rising is preparing “Patrice Lumumba,” a film on the life of the Congolese leader who was assassinated in 1961. Lumumba, the leader of the Congolese National ...

A passionate and propulsive documentary about the assassination of Patrice Lumumba spins its web in many directions. By Alissa Wilkinson The 1990 documentary about Patrice Lumumba by Raoul Peck (“I Am ...

Lumumba ends as the film begins, with a heart-wrenching dramatisation of the brutal 1961 assassination of Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of independent Democratic Republic of the Congo, ...

Patrice Lumumba the first Prime Minister of the newly independent African state The Congo To fellow Africans he was a hero the man who had won his countrys independence from the Belgians But for the ...

(indieWIRE/ 07.02.01) — Patrice Lumumba was the first (and only) freely elected prime minister of the African nation of Congo. A handsome, charismatic leader, Lumumba’s rise to power was a triumph ...

In December 1960, jazz drummer Max Roach released We Insist! The album’s five tracks were inspired by the Civil Rights movement in the US and the burgeoning freedom struggles in African colonies.

As his fate was decided, Patrice Lumumba decided to write a letter to his wife, as a token of the promise he had made to himself about his country and his people. This letter, although keeping a ...